Law and Economics of Intellectual Property
THIS COURSE IS NOT THE 827 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WORKSHOP. Rather, it is a more basic class designed to provide students interested in the law and economics of intellectual property with the major fundamental concepts and theories in this area of legal thought. As such, the class is designed in part to provide students who may be interested in the workshop with a solid foundation for reading and criticizing scholarship in this area, although all students are welcome. No background in either economics or intellectual property law is necessary. The class will focus on patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret law and will cover the foundational concepts from an almost exclusively analytical and theoretical approach, rather than concentrating on black letter law. The readings will draw primarily from articles and books, and students will be graded on class participation and a take-home, essay-style final exam.
Professor Morris